Klaus Schulze is a bit of a favourite of mine. It's hard to explain why as I'm sure to many people 70 minute tracks based around just a couple of ideas may seem a little... dull. But not to me. I have most - but not all - of his albums plus the limited edition box sets that came out over the last few years. So the news last year that a
new label was going to be re-releasing all of his albums seemed great. They came in nice digibox sleeves with the original artwork and liner notes and bonus tracks to fill out the CD's.
Which is where the problem comes. There's a great temptation to re-buy all the CD's to get hold of the bonus tracks, which of course is silly given that I have a
50 CD box set of "previously unreleased material" already. So I'm limiting myself to items I haven't already got - or that have significant extra material - to keep the madness at bay.
This album is the first one out that I didn't have. It's a sound track album and so, like most sound tracks - but unlike nearly all other Schulze albums, has around 20 short tracks. The pieces for the most part seem to reflect the period (1994) recalling
Beyond Recall and the
Royal Festival Hall concert. but the division into such short segments robs the album of the flow that the "proper" albums have.
The bonus track is an interesting piece, a 20 minute track from a very limited edition giveaway sampler album done for (I think) the Alesis corporation to show off their new keyboards.
